It’s been a rough (a) week (b) month (c) year (d) decade for the bears. Below are the thirteen positions which survived the blow torch to the face………….
The Survivors
Slope of Hope Blog Posts
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Crack-Up Boom
We are in uncharted territory, both figuratively and literally. I depend on patterns, horizontals, and trendlines, to help me make decisions. When the market is in crack-up asset boom mode, the best thing to do is take a time machine back, buy everything, and just wait until it stops. This is truly an unrelenting bull, and at this point I can’t help but think that inbound thermonuclear missiles would be seeing as just another buying opportunity.
Measures of Strength
The year 2025 has been one of unrelenting lifetime highs. The advance/decline line of the market shows an absolutely muscle-bound bull stomping its way through the beleaguered, nearly lifeless bears.
Wave Four, Precious
Although I agree with the prior post that the peaks for gold and silver are far from done, for the weeks ahead I’m inclined to agree also with our friends at Elliott Wave who are looking for a pretty severe beat-down of gold and silver before they steady themselves for the final, triumphant Wave Five.
